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Tourists would be able to visit Japan from next week on package tours without a guide, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday, as the country moves to ease strict COVID-19 controls. From Thursday next week, Japan would also raise its daily cap on the number of people allowed to enter the country to 50,000, Kishida told reporters. Japan has kept strict border restrictions in place longer than many other major economies, and only in June began allowing tourists to visit on the condition they came in tour groups accompanied by guides. Photo: AP “As international exchange becomes more active...
